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m Abbeville Press and Banner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. Build, do not knock. I* It really autumn at last? 2f a ben is a bird, what Is a bird? Dynamiters are criminals of the low at type. There were high fliers even befor< the days of airships. In a dirigible balloon there is no where to go but away. Whoever named it the "dirigible' kallfvm chniiM trv iieain Fly paper is not a good antidote foi typhoid, but it may be a preventive. An aviation meet is equal to ar opera season for bringing a spell o: bad weather. Those customs inspectors are be coming so expert that they can actual ly smell Jewelry. Cholera has gone to Siberia?of ltf own notion. If it would only stay then In perpetual exile! Now approaches the season whei the chauffeurs of balloons will have tc take their vacations. That woman joy rider who stole cab "bages seems to have had one con cealed In her drum-major hat This country has raised 1,096,OOO.OOC bushels of oats during the past season not Including the wild variety. New York expects to succeed Paris as a center for women's fashions. A terrible responsibility, as fashions now run! The world need no longer remain out of }oint. Surgeons, it seems, can snake new joints that rival the original CMS. r. A common house fly can go 35 feet per second. Why doesn't It maintain this rate of speed when headed the other way? Doctors are telling how they repair "broken bones with tenpenny nails. Woman doctors should do wonders with hairpins. That chauffeur who is going to drive an automobile to the top of a volcano to Hawaii would better wait until he gets an airship. In Oregon bear hunts are being made successfully with automobiles. But human victims saw their power of destruction first. In five of the nine complete months <at 1910 American imports have been In excess of exports. We are buying more than we sell ' A Connecticut man heard a Joke and hiccoughed for eight days. ^Possibly, like those Connecticut clocks, it was an eight-day Joke. In Los Angeles a pneumatic barber ?halr exploded and hurt a man. Thus mm see that excessive luxury carries Kb own punishment That a dealer in decayed eggs has been "fined $200 Is a pleasing and lnatructlve fact The public gets the pleasure and the dealer the Instruction. It is rumorea mat wan street may hereafter be opened with prayer. Prayer may not be what Wall street seeds most, bat It will undoubtedly help some. Postal authorities In Madagascar are arranging for the carrying of malls on the island by aeroplane. However, it probably will be some time before the airship will succeed rural free delivery ki the United States. A Pittsburg man Is In trouble because he thought It was cheaper to get married than it was to live singly and learned differently too late. A lot ol other men have had the same experience. To a cold and backward season In Rurope, with serious results to crops, have been added a number of destructive floods, the latest of which Is that trtnlnlt tr r\f Dopoolnno' Qnoln Ui tUC llViUil/ VI UUtVVIVUM, America has enough weather ecceir triclties, but the old world has been she worst sufferer this year. That four-toed horse found In the "bad lands" of Wyoming and reputed ?o Le the ancestor of the presenl equine race, undoubtedly has great in Merest as a scientific find. But as a show to attract the multitude he prob y wf] not be in the same class witb the "wcolly horee" of earlier days. One of the scientists declares thai 5n 100 years all the people of New York will be living underground. He tuust think they are going to solve the problem of getting better air under jpround before the lapse of anothei century. The crown prince of Servla Is de ?? ?? oAAAr/Hno' ta o ronnrtt aI all VUO, QV.VUI UIU^ IV U i vv^uv. I, UJ marrying a rich American girl. Aftei one has looked over the supply ol Servian girls one wonders why the trown prince insists that the Ameri can girl must be rich. A Gotham contemporary says thai a dead clerk in a county there stole the public funds. It must be a lively place for graft where even the dead ones keep on stealing. A woman who has reached the age of ninety advises her less mature sis iers in order to enjoy longevity tc **s"wim and avoid corsets." The softei sex will consent to swim or dive o? portunely, but as to avoiding corsets or being out of the fashion, it would oot do that even if it enabled them tc stt&ln the a?e of 190. h SOUTHERN EVENT.= p South Atlantic States Exposi5 j tion at Columbia Dec. 5-8BOOK OF PREMIUMS NOW READY p Farmers of Georgia, North Carolina, s and South Carolina Will Attend '* f Great Atlantic States Corn Exposi- _ 3 d tion?Corn Keeords Made in South C . u Columbia, S. C.? The premium c list of the South Atlantic States ^ Corn exposition, which is to be held e in Columbia from December 5 to 8, P h:i? hopn issmui nnH several thous- a and copies will be sent out to the e farmers of North Carolina, South ti | Carolina and Georgia. Approximately $10,000 will be given in ti prizes to the farmers of the three tl States showing the best corn at the E exposition. There will also be more o than 10 hansome trophy cups, valu- tl , ed at several thousand dollars, for g i the best corn exhibit. The premium tl list, a handsomely engraved booklet n of 50 pages, will be sent out to i any one desiring upon request of > the department of agriculture. All requests should be addressed to the e department of agriculture in Co- b lumhia. i? A REMARKABLE PICKPOCKET, * 1 Old, Blind. Deaf, Bald, and Tooth- 0 less, Man Continues Practice. c New York.?Joheph Jones, under ^ i arrest here charged with picking *( the pocket of a police sergeant on 8' - ii Broadway is rated by me aeiecuve bureau as one of the most remarkable prisoners whom l.hey have met ^ i in years. Jones is 87 years, old, p 1 blind, deaf, almost bald, toothless jj and suffering from manifold in- s. firmities age, yet the police de- 0 clare despite all these handicaps he j is still one of the most expert pick- ^ pockets in the trade. p He has been in various prisons ^ throughout the country many times a] since 1870 and his record at police w headquarters show fifteen convic- 0] tions. He was released from Sing ai Sing a year ago after serving a sen- ^ tence of three years. n Famous Strong Man Dead. s. Lynn, Mass.?Charles Orrin Breed, ri of this city, formerly world's ama- tl teur champion strong man, and one j* of the most prominent Methodist ^ Episcopal laymen in New England, ja dropped dead here from heart dis- p case. Mr. Breed was 54 years old. As a young man he became famous ir for his extraordinary strength and p traveled throughout the country bi giving exhibitions of muscular ei prowess, meeting strong men every- e< where and never once being defeat- di ea m strengm icsis. w Bishop Kilflo Opposes Y. M. C. A. w Raleigh, N. C.?Bishop John C. es Kilgo preached a sermon here, tak-'p( ing as his text, "Jesus Said Unto . Him, Thou Shaft Love the Lord cj Thy God With all Thy Heart, and With all Thy Soul, and With all Thy y< Mind." This is the first and great b< commandment. Matt. 22:37-37. With h; this as his theme Bishop Kilgo m condemned in strong term? the fr Young Men's Christian Association, m with its shower baths, gymnastics U and pool tables, stating that these tf led to everything but the true tf Christian religion. a Killed a Blind Tiger. W Shreveport, La.?Following a period of rioting in which an attempt d< i was made to shoot up the town, Oil sr City, the capital of the Caddo oil n< fields, has become quiet. The siatua- a.< tion was undfr control of the olTi- to cers of the place when reinforce- tl ments from this city reached the: si seme. . j 0 J no trouble began when Deputy w Sheriff Taylor shot Tom Hickev, an a alleged blind figer operator, while s( Hickev was resisting arrest. He is fc i the third man killed bv officers. ' r; I Football Player Not Guilty. i j Wheeling, W. Va?The inquest i held by Coroner \V. W. Posers into | the cause of the death of Captain j i Rudolph Munk, of the West Virginia cl University eleven, during the game tl here with Bethany College, resulted n > in a verdict by I he jury that Munk tl I came to his death accidentally. The : warrant for the arrest of Thomas , si McCoy, of Canton, Ohio, the Bethany ( w i player charged with causing the in- I 01 juries that caused d?\ith, will be;a1 t- withdrawn at I he instance of the l'; coroner. g Ceremony For Animals' Souls. Seattle, Wash.?Slemar adv'ces n fr>ll nf Hip cfrcninnv r>f )hr> "hpr?f (i soul celebration" which took place aj " recently in Tokio, for the purpose P of appeasing the souls of thousands ^ of cows and oxen killed during the Vl recent war to supply the army of Manchuria. II was estimated 130 a l< day were killed. A monument was : p erected "to prevent the souls of 1 these slaughtered animals rising in II retribution against I he butchers." a Population of Augusta Decreased. > Washington.?Sail Lake City has r a population of 92,777 according to v 1 statistics of !he thirteenth census li made public. This is an increase of e; 39,24G, or 73.3 per cent, over 53,031 ii in 1900. P The population of Sail Lake City 111 county, Utah, is 131,420, compared, with 77,725 in 1900. m Augusta, fia., has a population of | h 37,826 according lo statistics of the.y thirteenth census. This is a de-! v 1 crease of 1,015 or 4.1 per cent, under ! r< 39,441 in 1900. | o: CHILDREN WILL SAVE. 'ostal BaBnk System Will Soon Be at Work?Regulations Governing Institution. Washington?The law creating ostal savings banks which was igned by President Taft June 30 ist, will become operative within a ew weeks. Since the date of the pproval of the law the Poslmaster iencral, the Secretary of the Treasiry and the Attorney General who onstitute the board of trustees, ave been diligently at work, assistd by a special committee of emloyes of the Postoflice Department ppointed by the Postmaster Genral to perfect the details for puting the postal banks in operation. The special committee has had he advantage of the laws governing lie postal savings banks in Great iritain, France, Austra, Italy and thcr countries, the result being bat the rules and regulations to overn the postal savings banks in ho TTnifprl Sf.al.ps will be as well igh perfect as possible. The postal banks will be conductd on strictly banking lines with the xception that there will be no passooks, certificates of deposits being isued in duplicate. The opening of n account will be a very simple rocecding. Any person ten years f age, or over, may open an aoount in his or her, name for one ollar. The same privilege applies ) a married woman whose account tiall be "free from any control or iterference by her husband." Like ine dime savings bank, however, ou may begin your account with ucle Sam by buying a ten-cent ostal savings card. When you ave purchased nine other postal ivingsx cards, you will receive in Kchange a certificate of deposit, he postal savings stamps are then estroyed by the postmaster. The ostmaster General has already orered 1,500,000 postal savings cards nd 10,000,000 postal savings stamps ith which to begin business. No ne may deposit more than $100 in ny calendar month while the total l; ii ? A I -N. (T'XAA r.infknn did IIUU J3 liiui it'll iu ruiuiuilore, no person shall at the same me have more than one postal ivings account in his or her own ght. No obstacles are placed in le way of any depositor from 'ithdrawing the whole or part of is or her account, with accrued invest on demand, under such reguttions as the board of trustees may roscribe. , Depositors will bo paid 2 per cent iterest yearly. The postai funds laced in designaled banks by (he oard of trustees will yield the gov[ nment 2 1-4 per cent. It is believi that this quarter of one per cent ifforence between what the govminent pays the depositor and hat the banks will pay Uncle Sain ill be sufficient to meet all necjsary expenses for conducting the asta! savings depositories. A careful study of the law creatig postal savings banks makes it ear that the government will be ?nefitted largely, and that within a ?ar or two after the system has 3en in operation Uncle Sam inav ave all the money necessary to icet deficiencies, and to make efictive public improvements withit having to appeal to Wall street >r financial aid. It will also add to le desire of children to put away leir pennies so that they may buy government bond. /hat Constitutes Common Carrier? Washington.?Many millions of hilars in payments annually (o nail connecting roads of merely "uninal trackage extent and owned. 5 a rule, by a single shipping invest, are involved in a case which le Interstate Commerce fiommison has fixed for a hearing at New rleans December 8. Tt reopens the hole question of what constitutes common carrier and what confutes a rebate. There is no uni>rmity"in practice as to division of if OR. Monitor Puritan Badly Damaged. Fort Monroe, Va.?High explosive >sts on the monitor Puritan, anlored in Hampton Roads, damaged le vessel so seriously that it was ecessary to send a hurry call to le Norfolk navy yard to have tugs nt up and tow the battered warlip to dry dock. The tests made ere required by a provision in the rdnancc appropriation bill passed t the last session of Congress. Two ^plosions were made with nitrolycerine and gelatine. Woman Suffrage Lost in Arizona. Pheonix, Ariz.?Woman suffrage sceivod n blow when I lie eonslituonal convention by a vole of 15 gains! 28 defealrd the Conelly proosition instructing Ihe first Slate egiSlature at. ils first session to jbmit the question lo a referndum ole. II was afler several hours of ora try that I In* woman's suffrage Innk was voted down. Suffrage loaders say they ran got tie question before I lie voters at tiv time under the initiative. Yankees Hotter Move South. Worcester, Mass.?Perlev 0. Dais, nf Granby, was given Ibis disnetion by tin; New Eni:land Corn xposition ju ices here of stablisbip a new world's record for corn rnducfion. Mr. Davis was awarded ie prize (if !?.r/K?. The new record was made on rjw ere of land from which Mr. Davis arvesled 103 l-i bushels of dry, ellow f 1 i111 corn. His yield :il hares I time was 127 bushels of sin'led r?rn. which was reduced (?? nn equal f 10,'i l-'i bushels on scientific basis. ?? IT IS ENCOURAGING ? Food Products Getting Cheaper All Over the Country. PORK SHOWS GREATEST DROP. Bacon Has Dcclincd Five Cents a Pound at Cincinnati ? Former High Price of Meat and Big Corn Crop Encourage Hog Bailing. New York?Reports from various party of the country indicating a fall in the price of meats are reflected by similar reports from local dealers. They say the decline has already begun, the wholesale price of beef having gone oft on an average of three-quarters of a cent in the last week. One of the leading dealers said that sirloin steak that had brought 24 cents a pound was now calling for 22 cents. Porterhouse steak, he said, was down 3 cents a pound, selling now at 25 cents. Fresh pork prod ucts, however, show the greatest drop, the market dealers selling cuts for roasting at 18 cents a pound < that have within a short time been bringing 22 cents. Lard is down 2 cents a pound. The best grades of ham and bacon, on the contrary, show hardly any change. This is accounted for by the length of time it takes in curing. The dealers say the stocks of cured meats are very light and it will naturally be some time before the increased production of hogs offsets this condition. The market men attribute the relief from high prices to the enormous corn crop and the consequent ( low price of the cereal. Low prices of feed combined with the past j high prices of pork, they say, have , resulLed, as was expected,, in an in- . creased raising of hogs. Cincinnati. ? Meat prices have rirnnnp.H sharnlv here, bacon leading with a decline of 5 cents a pound. ] Other products' are cheaper and live hogs are selling at $1,25 a hun- j dred less than the prices ^quoted a i few weeks ago. Cattle and sheep ] and their products show similar de- ' clines and the housewife can get : sirloin steak for 12 1-2 cents a i pound. Coffee, potatoes and eggs, I however,^re steadily going higher, I while butter and cheese are as high i as last year. * ' 1 ROBIN COOPER NOT GUILTY. < Carmack's Alleged Slayer Freed by i a Tennessee Jury. Nashville, Tenn.?Robin J. Cooper ' charged with the murder of Senator Edward W. Carmack, was given a ] verdict of not guilty in the criminal ! court on recommendation of At- 1 torney General A. B. Anderson. Thiis 1 was brought to a close the final , chapter in one of the most cele- < brated cases known to the annuls 1 of the courts of Tennessee, in strik- ' ing contrast to the scenes marking , the first trial of the case, when the' court room was packed almost to < suffocation by those eager to hear ? every word of the evidence, there , < were only a few persons present. ;'i f -unsel were probably the only < persons there particularly on ac- J count of this case. ' ' * I Weds Her Adopted Son. Wellston, Ohio?Mrs. Sarah Stewart, 49 years old, married James ' Turnor, 20 years old, her adopted ' son, here. As guardian of the young < man Mrs. Stewart, first appeared ' before the license cleark and signed < the necessary permission for a ' minor to marry. The bridegroom > was adopted by Mrs. Stewart when I he was a baby. He was given a ' good education, and when he grew ' up he decided that he could not do 1 belter than enter into a closer rela- 1 tion with the woman ( A. C. L. Makes Good Showing. Richmond, Va. ? At the annual , meeting of the stockholders of the j Atlantic (joast L.ine rauroaa me re- j port of Comptroller H. C. Prince in- 1 dicated a net income for the year of 1 $0,993,254.03, an increase as compar- : eel with the corresponding period of } last year of more than $2,250,000. The directors declared the regular 1 dividend of 3 per cent payable Jan- < uary 10, 1911, to stockholders of J record December 17, 1910, thus keeping the stock on a 6 p^r cent basis. J Express Strike Called Off. New York.?The strike of drivers , and helpers employed by the trans- < continental express companies has 1 been formally declared otT. I The close of the strike was j I brought about by the New Jersey i > strikers who voted to accept the I ierm? imnn which the eoniDanies I ( ottered lo lake back the men. ; The agreement provides that the ] nn'M shall be taken hack without i discrimination except for acts of 1 violence during the strike. 1 Strange Disease Killing Sheep. Montrose, Colo.?A peculiar and hitherto unknown disease has at- I lacked the Mocks Of sheep in this I region and sheepmen are taking I xl.reme care to prevent the spread ' of the malady. 1 A post-mortem examination of one of the victims revealed a quan- r lily of water between the hide and < Ihe flesh of Ihe sheep, and aboul , live gallons of water were found in side I In- body. The heart and lungs [ I were surrounded by a growth and 1 ' the vital organs had disappeared. } > i WORK IS SATISFACTORY. Panama Canal Will be Completed Dee., 1913?Opened Formally January, 1915. Panama.?The Panama canal will be completed December 1, 1913. This information was given to President Taft while he was inspecting the famous Gatun dam, on which he spent several hours. The official date of the opening remains January 1, 1915, Lieutenant Colonel Goelhals desiring one year in which to train the canal tenders and to get the machinery working smoothly. Ships meantime will be granted the privilege of the canal but at their own risk of delays incident to inexperienced operation. In addition it was' announced by Lieutenant Colonel Goethals that the report that President Taft's visit was the furerunner of a request for another ?100,000,000 from Congress was unfounded. The canal will be completed in 1913, he said, within the .$375,000,000 already authorized. The President was tremendously pleased at the outlook for the early completion of the great work and congratulated Colonel Goethals. He expressed amazement at the amount of work accomplished since his visit to the isthmus in February, 1909. The President was greatly surprised at the immensity of the dam, some idea of which can be gained from the fact that the special train1 was under way nearly three hours on the spur tracks overrunning the great fill. The President exclaimed: "This is a mountain, not a dam." The visit of the President has utterly dispelled any fears gained from sensationalists respecting the stability of the dam base, which is a half-mile wide and so gradually sloped that it could never be recognized as a dam. Colonel Goethals explained to the President that the informal opening of the canal in 1913 necessitates immediate action on the part of Congress relative to toll rates because eighteen months will be required by , shipping interests to adjust their rates to the new routing. One Dollar Bills Popular. Washington.?Greenbacks of denominations of $20 and more are being fed daily into the mascerating in Min Ti'iKionmi iinilnp I[JUl III M I V_/ A 1 I UOUI T UUUV.I KJ\-\si lary MacVeagh's decision to supplant them with $1 bills of the same variety. The change is being made at about the rate of $1,000,000 a day, and the small bills are being sent lo the sub treasuries to meet the debe gold certificates. mauds of the banks. So great has the demand grown for small bills that some Treasury :>lficials are predicting that within a short time it may bo necessary to ionvert all silver certificates into SH ills. They believe that eventually ill the large bills* in circulation will Capital Controversy Settled. Guthrie. Okla.?Oklahoma City lost the State capital fight when the Stale Supreme court decided that Lhe seat of the State government nust remain in Guthrie. . The court held that the election hi cue uinenuuieiii iu rcuiuvi: uiu ?api(al to Oklahoma Cily \yas void, 1 jecause of defects in the title of { !,he ba"of. I Removal of Suits Unconstitutional. Montgomery, Ala.?Attorney On- 1 jral Garber of Alabama has issued 1 in opinion holding unconstitutional I he statue which forbids the removal of suits from Slate to Federal ; ourls and the cancellation of licon- " ;e of foreign corporations than made 1 such removal. ' 1 Woman Suffrage Brings Decency. Seattle, Wash.?The first legis'?iA/.iith'n<v fr?nm llm fl/lnntinn ( (llltJll Ii:suiuii5 JIUIJI Vi?u uuv^v.v.. I >f the woman suffrage amendment ! :o the Washington legislation was < troughL up when a bill was inlro- i juced in the city council prohibit- ! ng smoking in polling places at ? jeneral or special elections. The l jurpose of the proposed ordinance < s to make conditions about the i .'lection booths more attractive for i .vomen who may wish to vote or 1 who may preside as election ofll- ? lials. 1 Urge Sergeants Pardon. Atlanta, Ga. ? Resolutions were jnanimously adopted by the commissioned officers of the Fifth In- 1 ran try, National Guard of Georgia, jrging Gov. Campbell of Texas, to | pardon Sergeant Manley, who as a j tAnlnif r\f TilVOO m 1* I U I *1 >171111 ^ u1 LI it' 1wWUO UllliMU qwiviv. | ng a space set aside for President raft upon the chief executive's /isit to Dallas in October. 1909, kill- ^ 3d a citizen who attempted to force ' :iii way through the guard lines. 1 The citizen was wounded with a 1 layonet and died of his injuries. < Fight on Caleb Powers. Louisville, Ky. ? Reports which svere freely circulated and which ivere neither affirmed nor denied by 1 Democratic leaders are to the effect 1 Jiat there is a movement under way 1 ;o have the nine Democratic con- 1 jressmen of the Kentucky delega- 1 ion mnke a concerted efTort to have ' Haleb Powers ousted from his seat I is representative of the Eleventh ' Kentucky district. Congress, it is I ? ? - i 1 i - .1 , sported. will dc asneu m ueuy < Powers his scat on Hip ground thai < ic way thrice conviclcd of felony. I Depositors Want to Feel Safe. Washington.?"What. I lie deposi,ors want to know is that their de- ; < losits are securc: that thoy can get i I heir money when they call for it. j f I'll is legislation is intended to af- < "nrd I hem that assurance." i This is Ihe burden of a printed f irariunent filed in Ihe Supreme Court I >f Ihe United Stales by Charles 0. iVItrdon mi behalf of the Stale nl ; Vi brasl;r>. In defense of 111 msli- s nlioijalily of Ihe slalule gnaran-| I eci'-v d' P'>si!s in I! ?* batiks of (bat I WAIL OF GLASS TRUST. ' [ / Musi Reduce Wages 30 Per Cent on Account of Prosecution?Jail Sentence Next Time. Washington.?The Department of Justice, of which Attorney General Wickershain is the head, has taken notice of a newspaper dispatch from Pittsburg to the effect that the corporations combined in the so-called "window glass trust" had served notice upon their employes thai a wage reduction of 30 per cent was the only condition under which the factories could continue to manufacture. The dispatch further said that the corporations attributed this directly to the successful prosecution of the combination by the Department of Justice and the imposition by the United States court of flnoo 11i-i/in tho pnpiini'aI inn and unon its officers and directors individually. ' V' 'The department lias issued a statement outlining its view of the matter and incidentally intimating that the reported action of the corporations, if sustained by the fact, "would indicate a very mistaken leniency 011 the part of the court, which it is hoped would not bo followed on any other similar occasion." This intimation is interpreted here as indicating an intention on the part of the department to insist in similar cases upon jail sentences rather than fines. The Attorney General expressed indignation at such statements, and a strong doubt of its reliability. AUTO ACCIDENT. Woman I)ri\ing Car Faints and Machine Injures Three People. Raleigh, N.iC.?Mrs. A. H. MooneyKm o?>,l I ti'a nno-nn urnmun hnth 11(111 auu tVVV lIC^l V vnivii) ? ft/ww* from Durham, N. C., were probably fatally injured during the big flying machinc and automobile meet. It was an automobile accident before the flying machine events were pulled off. Mrs. H. D. Woolcott, of Raleigh, was speeding around the track, wheri the car skidded. She fainted. Her husband grasped I he wheel but he could not prevent it crashing through the fence, with the sad results named above. OLD FOLKS POISONED. Wealthy Farmer and \yife Die From Deadly Ptomaine. Atlanta, Ga.?William Sprayberrv, agrd 90. a wealthy planter, of DeKalb county, and his wife, aged 85, are dead, and three negro servants employed on the plantation were made seriously ill, the result, according to physicians, of ptomaine poisoning. Because of alleged family'differences. the dealhs were no' reported promptly to the count} authorities. Sprayberry left a fortune estimated at $100,000. There are no children, but their numerous relatives are said to be divided into factions. Viniinia Veteran Passes. New York.?Colonel William L. White, of Richmond, Va., 73 years Did. a veleran of the Confederate army in the civil war died suddenly Df heart failure horn. Colonel White was in charge of I.he military records of Richmond Ht> came to this city to attend the fifty-third anniversary of the wedJing of his twin sister. Mrs. Josephine Weisiger, wife of Colonel Powhatan Weisiger. Colonel White it the time a sergeant in the Third Howitzer Corps of Richmond, fired [he first gnn which opened the bailie of Big Bethel. Laborers Unearthed a Skeleton. GafTney, S. C.?The engineers in charge of the sewerage work had a creal surprise here when I he steam Jitching machine cut into a coffin near I he corner of Logan and Birnie streets and a skeleton of a man rolled out. The negroes employed on the work were very much frightened but an investigation was at once made by the engineer in charge and it was found that the skeleton had been buried for many, many years is not a trace of fiesh could be found. Discharfjed Bookkeeper Suicides. Columbia, S. C.?C. Maurice McDonald, a young man popular in Hartsville, committed suicide by [aking a dose of strychnine. It is presumed that the loss of his position as bookkeeper in the Bank of Hartsville was the cause of his act. \cording to the oflicials of the bank, roung McDonald was no I short, but Aas discharged on account of inat[ention to his work, there being no jharges reflecting on his integrity. Police Destroy Evil Weapons. v New Orleans.?The Mississippi iver has been freighted with an unusual cargo. No clearance papers A'ere necessary. The consignment svas strictly irregular. It. was listed to the river bottom. It consisted if innumerable i>isln!s. a vast quantity of razors, countless brass knuckles and a considerable quantity of 'dope" representing a confession for months past by the police J ..i.i low minnirnc Mini Jt'jJill I 11II" 111'. Ill* ?u? J v | they be destroyed. Socialists Wife a Suffragette. St. Louis?Mrs Mala Rerger, wife if Victor Rerger, of Milwaukee, the Irst Socialist to ho elected to Conrress, is not a delegate (o (he labor convention, but is here because she s a Socialist and a suffragist and it lends all public meetings in which ter husband has part. I never had an opportunity to he i member of a union," Mrs. Rerger :aid. "but then! is one union that am going to join as soon as it is 'i t ani/.t tl. Thai is the housewives' mion." > * . ' " 1 ' '.-I-'. ,. . AN INHUMAN FIEND Depraved Boys Awful Story , of fathers Murder. '' KILLED OLD MAN BY DEGREESCrime Inspired by Trivial Quarrel? Ignores Pitiful Appeal For His Life?Beat and Dumped Iufo WeJ^, ^ Slakes Confession After Arrest. Mune.ie., Ind.?"I thought he was dead; [ loaded the body into the buggy and started for the old well. I hail the body propped up off the seat. On the way father revived a little and threw his arms around my neck. Then I beat him over the head again until he was quiet. Just as 1 was about to throw the body into the well, he groaned and gave a long sigh." This, according to the police, is part of the signed confession of , Bonjamin Smith, 22 years old, a farmer now in the Muncie jail. It was the climax of a remarkable recital of murder. Smith, his hands smeared, with blood, had staggered into thq home of Oscar Shaw and told a story of ; having been attacked by highwaymen. Smith's father was mysteriously missing and suspicions were aroused which led to his arrest. Under examination, he finally said that/he would show the police whereas father's body could be found. ,v. He led the way to an abondoned well and pointing said: "There he is."' From out of the weli the police took the body of Charles Smith, the father. The police learned that the fathor and son had quarreled because the father wanted young siriun 10 pay uoara. STANDARD OIL CO. NO GUILTY. Government Failed to Show Violation of Law. Jackson, Tenn. ? In a ruling* which required just twenty minutes to read. Judge John E. McCall, in i the United States circuit court here, wrote finis to the efforts of the government to have assessed against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, penalties aggregating in excess of $30,000,000. The ruling of the court instructing that a verdict of not guilty be returned, / came with the conclusion of the case in chief of the prosecution and in substance holds with the contention of' the defense, that after four years, the United States had failed to build its structure of evidence other than on sand. / The suit at issue was probablythe most important litigation against the great corporation ever fought out in the South. The Elkins law, regarding interstate commerce, was violated, it was alleged, through "schem^ and device," the specific offense charged being th$ receiving of freight rate conces-/ > sions. 'A.Hifjh Price For Two Horses. New York.?Lugano and Como, E. T. Stotesbury's crack pair of roadsters, which took a blue^ ribbon at the horse show here, were sold to Waiter VVinans for $25,000. This is a record price for a horse show , transaction. \ Mr. Winans, famous as an Ameri can citizen wno nas 'visuea mis country but once, had an entry pitted against the Slotesbury pair, but did nof even get highly commended. Conscience is Lashing Him. Winston-Salem, N. C.?Asserting that he had slain a man named John Bolin, in York, S. C., eight years ago, and (hat he wished to go back and make reparation, although he had been tried and acquitted of the crime, a white man of middle age giving his name as Dock Lanier surrendered himself to Policeman Cofer here. He Was placed in a cell and the York authorities will be communicated with. The opinion of many is that the man is demented. Husband Not Guilty Wife Murder. Camden, S. C.?Sam R. Kirkland, who was placcd on trial for his life is now a iree man, a jury naving ueclared that he was not guilty of the murder of his wife Brought under unusual circumstances, was the case against Kirkland. unique in the courts of this Slate. Charged with having entered into a suicide pact with his wife, who on the evening of March 24, set fire l.o herself and was burned to death. Dr. Cippen's Father Dead. Los Angeles, Cal.?Myron H. Crippen. aged 83 years, father of Dr.' Hawley H. Crippen, under sentence of death in London for the murder of his wife, died here friendless and penniless. TJJ * ,!/-?.?ih rJnn #/> lh.% i ri fi r?m i Hoc* nf ni? UV'UUI, UUl nu?iuiiuvg v* ago. was hastened by grief over his son's crime. Death occurred in a rooming house and the only person at the old man's bedside was the woman who managed I lie place. Railway Scalcs Incorrect? Raleigh. N. C.?That shippers not only in North Carolina, but in all parts of the couinry are complaining of the incorrectness of scale weights of railroads and that remedying of this evil is a decided problem is the statement of Corporation Commissioner H. C. Brown, of the North Carolina Corporation Commission back from Washington, 1). C., where he attended the annual convention of the National Association of Railway Commissioners.